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The '''Ambassador Book Award''' is awarded annually by the [[English Speaking Union]]. It recognizes important literary works that contribute to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award are considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges, currently chaired by author [[Maureen Howard]],<ref>[http://www.esuus.org/books_across_sea_ambassador_books_awards_committee.htm ESU Programs - Ambassador Book Awards Committee]</ref> selects books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry.
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The '''Ambassador Book Award''' (1986–2011) was presented annually by the [[English-Speaking Union]]. It recognized important literary and non-fiction works that contributed to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award were considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges selected books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry.
The award was established in 1986. Since then, winners have included books by such notable authors as [[Tom Wolfe]] (1988), [[Joan Didion]] (1988), [[Raymond Carver]] (1989), [[Gore Vidal]] (1989), [[John Cheever]] (1992), [[John Updike]] (1997)<ref>[http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/updikebio.html John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources]</ref>, [[Don Delillo]] (1998), [[Philip Roth]] (1999)<ref>[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/roth/ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth]</ref>, and [[Annie Proulx]] (2000).

The award was established in 1986. Winners included books by such notable authors as [[Tom Wolfe]] (1988), [[Joan Didion]] (1988), [[Raymond Carver]] (1989), [[Gore Vidal]] (1989), [[John Cheever]] (1992), [[John Updike]] (1997),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/updikebio.html |title=John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources |access-date=2008-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704210139/http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/updikebio.html |archive-date=2008-07-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Don Delillo]] (1998), [[Philip Roth]] (1999),<ref>[http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/roth/ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth]</ref> and [[Annie Proulx]] (2000).


==Recipients==
==Recipients==


'''2010'''
'''1986'''
*Fiction - ''[[Lake Wobegon Days]]'', by [[Garrison Keillor]]
*American Studies - ''The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War'', by [[James Mann]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]'', by [[Anne Tyler]]
*American Studies - ''[[Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression]]'', by [[Morris Dickstein]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''Louis D. Brandeis: A Life'', by [[Melvin Urofsky]]
*Fiction - ''[[Let the Great World Spin]]'', by [[Colum McCann]]
*Poetry - ''Mercury Dressing'', by [[J. D. McClatchy]]
*Special Distinction Award - ''Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original'', by [[Robin D.G. Kelley]]


'''2009'''
'''1987'''
*American Studies - ''A Summer of Hummingbirds'', by [[Christopher Benfey]]
*American Studies - ''Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures'', by [[Frances FitzGerald (journalist)|Frances FitzGerald]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''A Passion for Nature:The Life of John Muir'', by [[Donald Worster]]
*American Studies - ''The Cycles of American History'', by [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr]]
*Current Affairs - ''The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals'', by [[Jane Mayer]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America'', by [[Arnold Rampersad]]
*Fiction - ''Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories'', by [[Steven Millhauser]]
*Fiction - ''[[Roger's Version]]'', by [[John Updike]]
*Special Citation - ''[[The Story of English]]'' by [[Robert McCrum]], [[William Cran]] and [[Robert MacNeil]]
*Poetry - ''Old War'', by [[Alan Shapiro]]
*Special Award - [[Toni Morrison]]


'''2008'''
'''1988'''
*American Studies - ''Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics'', by [[Rebecca Solnit]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''Collected Prose'', by [[Robert Lowell]]
*American Studies - ''[[Miami (book)|Miami]]'', by [[Joan Didion]]
*Autobiography - ''Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties'', by [[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]]
*Biography - ''Edith Wharton'', by [[Hermione Lee]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]'', by [[Mohsin Hamid]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]'', by [[Tom Wolfe]]
*Poetry - ''Blackbird and Wolf'', by [[Henri Cole]]
*Special Citation - ''Blues'' by [[John Hersey]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[John Ashbery]]


'''2007'''
'''1989'''
*American Studies - ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl'', by [[Timothy Egan]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''At Home: Essays 1982-1988'', by [[Gore Vidal]]
*American Studies - ''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam]]'', by [[Neil Sheehan]]
*Autobiography - ''The Afterlife: A Memoir'', by [[Donald Antrim]]
*Biography - ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher'', by [[Debby Applegate]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963]]'', by [[Taylor Branch]]
*Fiction - ''[[Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories]]'', by [[Raymond Carver]]
*Current Affairs - ''[[Fiasco (book)|Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq]]'', by [[Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)|Thomas E. Ricks]]
*Fiction - ''The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel'', by [[Amy Hempel]]
*Poetry - ''[[Averno (poetry)|Averno]]'', by [[Louise Glück]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Garry Wills]]


'''2006'''
'''1990'''
*American Studies - ''A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'', by [[Stacy Schiff]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Writing Life'', by [[Annie Dillard]]
*American Studies - ''Among Schoolchildren'', by [[Tracy Kidder]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'', by [[Kai Bird]] and [[Martin Sherwin]]
*Fiction - ''Liberation: A Novel'', by [[Joanna Scott]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[This Boy's Life|This Boy's Life: A Memoir]]'', by [[Tobias Wolff]]
*Poetry - ''Migration'', by [[W.S. Merwin]]
*Fiction - ''[[Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All]]'', by [[Allan Gurganus]]


'''2005'''
'''1991'''
*American Studies - ''[[Washington's Crossing (book)|Washington's Crossing]]'', by [[David Hackett Fischer]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''The House of Barrymore'', by [[Margot Peters]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''De Kooning: An American Master'', by [[Mark Stevens]]
*American Studies - ''A New York Life'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*Fiction - ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'', by [[Marilynne Robinson]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The House of Morgan'', by [[Ron Chernow]]
*Poetry - ''Collected Poems'', by [[Donald Justice]]
*Fiction - ''Killing Mr. Watson'', by [[Peter Matthiessen]]


'''2004'''
'''1992'''
*American Studies - ''[[They Marched into Sunlight]]'', by [[David Maraniss]]
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Journals of John Cheever'', by [[John Cheever]]
*American Studies - ''The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963'', by [[Michael Beschloss]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Hawthorne , A Life'', by [[Brenda Wineapple]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Woodrow Wilson'', by [[August Heckscher II|August Heckscher]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Time of Our Singing]]'', by [[Richard Powers]]
*Poetry - ''Robert Lowell: Collected Poems'', edited by [[Frank Bidart]] & [[David Gewanter]]
*Fiction - ''[[A Thousand Acres]]'', by [[Jane Smiley]]
*Special Prize - ''American Views: Essays on American Art'' by [[John Wilmerding]]
*Distinguished Achievement Award - [[Robert A. Caro]]


'''2003'''
'''1993'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''Up in the Old Hotel'', by [[Joseph Mitchell (writer)|Joseph Mitchell]]
*Fiction - ''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'', by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]
*American Studies - ''In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692'', by [[Mary Beth Norton]]
*American Studies - ''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America]]'', by [[Garry Wills]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War'', by [[T. J. Stiles]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Archibald MacLeish: An American Life'', by [[Scott Donaldson (writer)|Scott Donaldson]]
*Fiction - ''[[Outerbridge Reach]]'', by [[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]]
*Poetry - ''Springing, New and Selected Poems'', by [[Marie Ponsot]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Edmund S. Morgan]]


'''2002'''
'''1994'''
*American Studies - ''[[Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution]]'', by [[Diane McWhorter]]
*American Studies - ''Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy'', by [[George F. Kennan]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[John Adams (book)|John Adams]]'', by [[David McCullough]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919]]'', by [[David Levering Lewis]]
*Fiction - ''The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court'', by [[Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor|Peter Taylor]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Hortense Calisher]]
*Fiction - ''[[Empire Falls]]'', by [[Richard Russo]]
*Poetry - ''Tesserae & Other Poems'', by [[John Hollander]]
*Poetry - ''The Darkness and the Light'', by [[Anthony Hecht]]


'''2001'''
'''1995'''
*American Studies - ''[[In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex]]'', by [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]
*American Studies - ''Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South'', by [[John Egerton (journalist)|John Egerton]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', by [[David Nasaw]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'', by [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Collected Stories of Grace Paley|The Collected Stories]]'', by [[Grace Paley]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]
*Fiction - ''Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks'', by [[Russell Banks]]
*Poetry - ''Like Most Revelations'', by [[Richard Howard]]
*Poetry - ''American Poerty: The Twentieth Century'', 2 vols., by Hass, Hollander, Kizer, Mackey, Perloff


'''2000'''
'''1996'''
*American Studies - ''Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945'', by [[David M. Kennedy (historian)|David M. Kennedy]]
*American Studies - ''Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence'', by [[John Hockenberry]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Morgan: American Financier'', by [[Jean Strouse]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography'', by [[David S. Reynolds]]
*Fiction - ''[[Close Range: Wyoming Stories]]'', by [[Annie Proulx]]
*Fiction - ''All the Days and Nights'', by [[William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.|William Maxwell]]
*Poetry - ''Vita Nova'', by [[Louise Glück]]
*Poetry - ''Atlantis'', by [[Mark Doty]]
*Special Award - ''[[The Liar's Club]]'' by [[Mary Karr]]


'''1999'''
'''1997'''
*American Studies - ''Slaves in the Family'', by [[Edward Ball (American author)|Edward Ball]]
*American Studies - ''Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West'', by [[Stephen E. Ambrose]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''N.C. Wyeth'', by [[David Michaelis]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century'', by [[Robert W. Merry]]
*Fiction - ''[[I Married a Communist]]'', by [[Philip Roth]]
*Fiction - ''[[In the Beauty of the Lilies]]'', by [[John Updike]]
*Poetry - ''The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren'', by John Burt
*Poetry - ''The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966 - 1996'', by [[Robert Pinsky]]


'''1998'''
'''1998'''
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*Poetry - ''Black Zodiac'', by [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]]
*Poetry - ''Black Zodiac'', by [[Charles Wright (poet)|Charles Wright]]


'''1997'''
'''1999'''
*American Studies - ''Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West'', by [[Stephen E. Ambrose]]
*American Studies - ''[[Slaves in the Family]]'', by [[Edward Ball (American author)|Edward Ball]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century'', by [[Robert W. Merry]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''N.C. Wyeth'', by [[David Michaelis]]
*Fiction - ''[[In the Beauty of the Lilies]]'', by [[John Updike]]
*Fiction - ''[[I Married a Communist]]'', by [[Philip Roth]]
*Poetry - ''The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966 - 1996'', by [[Robert Pinsky]]
*Poetry - ''The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren'', by [[John Burt (poet)|John Burt]]


'''1996'''
'''2000'''
*American Studies - ''Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence'', by [[John Hockenberry]]
*American Studies - ''[[Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945]]'', by [[David M. Kennedy (historian)|David M. Kennedy]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography'', by [[David S. Reynolds]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Morgan: American Financier'', by [[Jean Strouse]]
*Fiction - ''All the Days and Nights'', by [[William Maxwell]]
*Fiction - ''[[Close Range: Wyoming Stories]]'', by [[Annie Proulx]]
*Literary Achievement - ''The Best Short Stories of the Twentieth Century'' by [[John Updike]]
*Poetry - ''Atlantis'', by [[Mark Doty]]
*Poetry - ''Vita Nova'', by [[Louise Glück]]


'''1995'''
'''2001'''
*American Studies - ''Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South'', by [[John Egerton (journalist)|John Egerton]]
*American Studies - ''[[In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex]]'', by [[Nathaniel Philbrick]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II'', by [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'', by [[David Nasaw]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]
*Fiction - ''The Collected Stories'', by [[Grace Paley]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Collected Stories of Grace Paley|Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks]]'', by [[Russell Banks]]
*Poetry - ''Like Most Revelations'', by [[Richard Howard]]
*Poetry - ''American Poetry: The Twentieth Century'', 2 vols., by Hass, Hollander, Kizer, Mackey, Perloff


'''1994'''
'''2002'''
*American Studies - ''Around the Cragged Hill A Personal and Political Philosophy'', by [[George F. Kennan]]
*American Studies - ''[[Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution]]'', by [[Diane McWhorter]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''W.E.B. Du Bois Biography of Race 1868-1919'', by [[David Levering Lewis]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[John Adams (book)|John Adams]]'', by [[David McCullough]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Hortense Calisher]]
*Fiction - ''The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court'', by [[Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor|Peter Taylor]]
*Poetry - ''Tesserae & Other Poems'', by [[John Hollander]]
*Fiction - ''[[Empire Falls]]'', by [[Richard Russo]]
*Poetry - ''The Darkness and the Light'', by [[Anthony Hecht]]


'''1993'''
'''2003'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''Up in the Old Hotel'', by [[Joseph Mitchell]]
*Fiction - ''[[Middlesex (novel)|Middlesex]]'', by [[Jeffrey Eugenides]]
*American Studies - ''[[Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America]]'', by [[Garry Wills]]
*American Studies - ''In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692'', by [[Mary Beth Norton]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Archibald MacLeish: An American Life'', by [[Scott Donaldson]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War'', by [[T. J. Stiles]]
*Fiction - ''Outerbridge Reach'', by [[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]]
*Poetry - ''Springing, New and Selected Poems'', by [[Marie Ponsot]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Edmund S. Morgan]]


'''1992'''
'''2004'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Journals of John Cheever'', by [[John Cheever]]
*American Studies - ''[[They Marched into Sunlight]]'', by [[David Maraniss]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Hawthorne , A Life'', by [[Brenda Wineapple]]
*American Studies - ''The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev : 1960 - 1963'', by [[Michael Beschloss]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Woodrow Wilson'', by [[August Hecscher]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Time of Our Singing]]'', by [[Richard Powers]]
*Fiction - ''[[A Thousand Acres]]'', by [[Jane Smiley]]
*Poetry - ''Robert Lowell: Collected Poems'', edited by [[Frank Bidart]] & [[David Gewanter]]
*Distinguished Achievement Award - [[Robert A. Caro]]


'''1991'''
'''2005'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''The House of Barrymore'', by [[Margot Peters]]
*American Studies - ''[[Washington's Crossing (book)|Washington's Crossing]]'', by [[David Hackett Fischer]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''De Kooning: An American Master'', by [[Mark Stevens (art critic)|Mark Stevens]]
*American Studies - ''A New York Life'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The House of Morgan'', by [[Ron Chernow]]
*Fiction - ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'', by [[Marilynne Robinson]]
*Fiction - ''Killing Mr. Watson'', by [[Peter Matthiessen]]
*Poetry - ''Collected Poems'', by [[Donald Justice]]


'''1990'''
'''2006'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''The Writing Life'', by [[Annie Dillard]]
*American Studies - ''A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'', by [[Stacy Schiff]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'', by [[Kai Bird]] and [[Martin Sherwin]]
*American Studies - ''Among Schoolchildren'', by [[Tracy Kidder]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''[[This Boy's Life|This Boy's Life: A Memoir]]'', by [[Tobias Wolff]]
*Fiction - ''Liberation: A Novel'', by [[Joanna Scott]]
*Fiction - ''[[Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All]]'', by [[Allan Gurganus]]
*Poetry - ''Migration'', by [[W.S. Merwin]]


'''1989'''
'''2007'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''At Home: Essays 1982-1988'', by [[Gore Vidal]]
*American Studies - ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl'', by [[Timothy Egan]]
*Autobiography - ''The Afterlife: A Memoir'', by [[Donald Antrim]]
*American Studies - ''[[A Bright Shining Lie|A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann in Vietnam]]'', by [[Neil Sheehan]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963'', by [[Taylor Branch]]
*Biography - ''The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher'', by [[Debby Applegate]]
*Current Affairs - ''[[Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq]]'', by [[Thomas E. Ricks (journalist)|Thomas E. Ricks]]
*Fiction - ''[[Where I'm Calling From|Where I'm Calling From: New & Selected Stories]]'', by [[Raymond Carver]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel]]'', by [[Amy Hempel]]
*Poetry - ''[[Averno (poetry)|Averno]]'', by [[Louise Glück]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[Garry Wills]]


'''1988'''
'''2008'''
*American Arts & Letters - ''Collected Prose'', by [[Robert Lowell]]
*American Studies - ''Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics'', by [[Rebecca Solnit]]
*Autobiography - ''Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties'', by [[Robert Stone (novelist)|Robert Stone]]
*American Studies - ''[[Miami (book)|Miami]]'', by [[Joan Didion]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright'', by [[Brendan Gill]]
*Biography - ''Edith Wharton'', by [[Hermione Lee]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]'', by [[Tom Wolfe]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Reluctant Fundamentalist]]'', by [[Mohsin Hamid]]
*Poetry - ''Blackbird and Wolf'', by [[Henri Cole]]
*Lifetime Achievement - [[John Ashbery]]


'''1987'''
'''2009'''
*American Studies - ''Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures'', by [[Frances FitzGerald (journalist)|Frances FitzGerald]]
*American Studies - ''A Summer of Hummingbirds'', by [[Christopher Benfey]]
*American Studies - ''The Cycles of American History'', by [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir'', by [[Donald Worster]]
*Biography & Autobiography - ''The Life of Langston Hughes, Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America'', by [[Arnold Rampersad]]
*Current Affairs - ''The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals'', by [[Jane Mayer]]
*Fiction - ''[[Roger's Version]]'', by [[John Updike]]
*Fiction - ''Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories'', by [[Steven Millhauser]]
*Poetry - ''Old War'', by [[Alan Shapiro]]
*Special Award - [[Toni Morrison]]


'''1986'''
'''2010'''
*American Studies - ''The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War'', by [[James Mann (writer)|James Mann]]
*Fiction - ''[[Lake Wobegon Days]]'', by [[Garrison Keillor]]
*American Studies - ''[[Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression]]'', by [[Morris Dickstein]]
*Fiction - ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]'', by [[Anne Tyler]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''Louis D. Brandeis: A Life'', by [[Melvin Urofsky]]
*Fiction - ''[[Let the Great World Spin]]'', by [[Colum McCann]]
*Poetry - ''Mercury Dressing'', by [[J. D. McClatchy]]
*Special Distinction Award - ''Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original'', by [[Robin Kelley|Robin D. G. Kelley]]

'''2011'''
*American Studies - ''[[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]'', by [[Rebecca Skloot]]
*Biography and Autobiography - ''The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century'', by [[Alan Brinkley]]
*Fiction - ''The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg'', by [[Deborah Eisenberg]]
*Poetry - ''Every Riven Thing: Poems'', by [[Christian Wiman]]
*Special Distinction Award - ''The Memory Chalet'', by [[Tony Judt]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.esuus.org/Programs_Books_Across_Sea_Ambassador_Book_Awards.htm Ambassador Book Award], official website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080724075909/http://www.esuus.org/Programs_Books_Across_Sea_Ambassador_Book_Awards.htm Ambassador Book Award], official website.


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Ambassador Book Award
Awarded forLiterary and non-fiction works
CountryUnited States
Presented byEnglish-Speaking Union
First awarded1986

The Ambassador Book Award (1986–2011) was presented annually by the English-Speaking Union. It recognized important literary and non-fiction works that contributed to the understanding and interpretation of American life and culture. Winners of the award were considered literary ambassadors who provide, in the best contemporary English, an important window on America to the rest of the world. A panel of judges selected books out of new works in the fields of fiction, biography, autobiography, current affairs, American studies and poetry.

The award was established in 1986. Winners included books by such notable authors as Tom Wolfe (1988), Joan Didion (1988), Raymond Carver (1989), Gore Vidal (1989), John Cheever (1992), John Updike (1997),[1] Don Delillo (1998), Philip Roth (1999),[2] and Annie Proulx (2000).

Recipients

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1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

References

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  1. ^ "John Updike bio and awards at American Literature Web Resources". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  2. ^ Houghton Mifflin list of awards won by Philip Roth
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